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The Economist asks: where do you stand on mass surveillance?https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/05/the-economist-asks-where-do-you-stand-on-mass-surveillance
And what about the EU or fracking?<p>The Economist has launched a new advertising campaign around the theme "Where do you stand?" Posters have begun to appear on London tube stations that pose three questions:</p><p>Should Britain stay in or get out of the EU? Is fracking a good or bad solution to Britain's energy problems? Is electronic surveillance excessive or essential?</p><p>"Spies used to target likely wrongdoers. Now they hoover up information about everyone.</p><p>American spooks collect information about nearly 100 billion communications each month.</p><p>"Since 2001 electronic snooping has helped disrupt at least 42 terrorist plots around the world.</p><p>Computer networks have made it easier for bad guys to communicate in secret. Spies need new tools just to keep up.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/05/the-economist-asks-where-do-you-stand-on-mass-surveillance">Continue reading...</a>MediaSurveillanceThe EconomistLondonGCHQThe GuardianAlan RusbridgerDavid DavisNewspapersNational newspapersThe IndependentDaily MailThe TimesGoogleWikipediaEuropean UnionTue, 05 Nov 2013 16:52:41 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/05/the-economist-asks-where-do-you-stand-on-mass-surveillanceRoy Greenslade2013-11-05T16:52:41ZHistorian fears Daily Mail used his website to traduce Ralph Milibandhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/oct/04/viscount-rothermere-edmiliband
<p>Historian John Simkin fears he is partially, and unintentionally, responsible for the Daily Mail's attack on Ed Miliband.</p><p>He runs a website, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/">Spartacus Educational</a>, which contains <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/HISmiliband.htm">a biography of Ralph Miliband</a> and he has noted similarities between the Mail's article and information gleaned from that biography.</p><p>"In the article [Mail writer] Geoffrey Levy quotes from a diary entry that the 16-year-old Ralph Miliband wrote in 1940: 'The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world... When you hear the English talk of this war you sometimes almost want them to lose it to show them how things are.'</p><p>Levy probably got this information from my webpage on Ralph Miliband. (The information originally came Michael Newman's book, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left). </p><p>"Miliband had been dismayed by the anti-Semitism he found in London. For example, he felt he was unable to tell his first girlfriend, Marjorie, that he was Jewish."</p><p>"The German nation, moreover, was rapidly falling under the control of its alien elements. In the last days of the pre-Hitler regime there were twenty times as many Jewish government officials in Germany as had existed before the war. </p><p>Israelites of international attachments were insinuating themselves into key positions in the German administrative machine. Three German ministers only had direct relations with the press, but in each case the official responsible for conveying news and interpreting policy to the public was a Jew."</p><p>"The rumour on Fleet Street was that the Daily Mail's Jewish advertisers had threatened to place their ads in a different paper if Rothermere continued the pro-fascist campaign."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/oct/04/viscount-rothermere-edmiliband">Continue reading...</a>MediaViscount RothermereEd MilibandDaily MailAdolf HitlerOswald MosleyHistoryDaily Mail & General TrustNational newspapersGoogleWikipediaAustralia newsRalph MilibandFri, 04 Oct 2013 08:18:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/oct/04/viscount-rothermere-edmilibandRoy Greenslade2013-10-04T08:18:00ZHere is the news - newspaper organisations defy the digital revolutionhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/29/clay-shirky-digital-media
<p>At the beginning of this month, Clay Shirky offered some thoughts on how we journalists might like to think about our digital future.</p><p>His essay (it seems trite to describe it as a mere posting), <a href="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/12/institutions-confidence-and-the-news-crisis/"><em>Institutions, confidence, and the news crisis</em></a>, is short but, as ever, thoughtful. </p><p>"In a world where Wikipedia is a more popular source of information than any newspaper, maybe we won't have a clear centre anymore. </p><p>Maybe we'll just have lots of overlapping, partial, competitive, cooperative attempts to arm the public to deal with the world we live in."</p><p>"If you believe, as I do, that many of those institutions are so mismatched to the task at hand that most of them face a choice, at best, between radical restructure and outright collapse, well, in that case, you'd probably find the smartest 25 year olds you know, and try to convince them that now would be a pretty good time to start working on Plan B." </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/29/clay-shirky-digital-media">Continue reading...</a>MediaClay ShirkyDigital mediaNewspapersSocial networkingWikipediaInternetThu, 29 Dec 2011 11:14:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/29/clay-shirky-digital-mediaRoy Greenslade2011-12-29T11:14:03ZHolding US journalists to account...https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/nov/02/us-press-publishing-newspapers
<p>A new US-based website aims to provide information about American journalists and thereby hold them accountable for their output. </p><p><a href="http://www.newstransparency.com/">News Transparency</a> enables users to "find out more about the people who produce the news" and "hold them accountable, the same way that journalists hold other powerful institutions accountable, by posting reviews and sharing information."</p><p>"This site aims to improve the accuracy, quality, and transparency of journalism by making it easier to find out about the individual human beings who produce the news -- human beings with opinions, relationships, history, and agendas.</p><p>That information should help readers, viewers, and listeners put what they are reading in better context, and it may even prompt some improvements by the journalists."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/nov/02/us-press-publishing-newspapers">Continue reading...</a>MediaUS press and publishingNewspapersUS newsWikipediaDigital mediaWed, 02 Nov 2011 16:48:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/nov/02/us-press-publishing-newspapersRoy Greenslade2011-11-02T16:48:00ZWikipedia - a source often kept secrethttps://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2008/feb/08/wikipediaasourceoftenkept
<p>How much credence should journalists give <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>? If we use it, do we ever cite it as our source? Or is it a wicked secret we dare not admit? Given the speed of turn-over - and the absence of cuttings libraries nowadays - isn't it natural that we click to it so often? <a href="http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4461">Here's</a> an <strong>American Journalism Review</strong> article that explores those questions and more.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2008/feb/08/wikipediaasourceoftenkept">Continue reading...</a>Newspapers & magazinesMediaWorld newsWikipediaTechnologyDigital mediaFri, 08 Feb 2008 08:43:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2008/feb/08/wikipediaasourceoftenkeptRoy Greenslade2008-02-08T08:43:00Z